Straight from the Desk to D.I.Y! I'm Henry and I'm renovating an old house in the countryside after escaping city life.

Armed with basic tools, questionable confidence, and far too many YouTube tutorials, I’m tackling the renovation one job at a time.

After 15 years behind a desk, I realised I missed making physical things. When redundancy gave me the push (well…more of a shove), I swapped the keyboard for power tools and started learning how to renovate a house...mostly by doing it the hard way.

'Hen-House' is about the real process of restoring my cottage from the ground up: the mistakes, the skills I’m figuring out as I go, and the occasional moment where something actually works.

Expect start-to-finish renovation projects, restorations, repairs, budget-friendly upgrades and the inevitable “this didn’t go to plan” moments.

If you enjoy old houses and learning DIY from scratch, grab a brew and subscribe — and let’s see if we can pull this off without the cottage falling down!